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Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo
powerful stuff just now on CNN, viewer e-mails responding to "how would you rate the response of the federal government to this disaster." I won't summarize cuz i don't want to threadjack this into a political thread, but one thing really struck me. one viewer pointed out:
"we can invade a country on the other side of the world but we can't drop bottled water from a helicopter onto a street in New Orleans." too true...too true.
this is not my America. How were we not better prepared for this? Republicans...Democrats, whatever. We knew this was liable to happen at some point, the fact that we were not better prepared is simply inexcusable.
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Yes. I hope people see the difference between prediction and preparedness. Of course you cannot predict the exact moment a levee will break just as we could not predict that people would fly planes into the WTC. Also, you can't expect large-scale disaster relief to run smoothly. But, especially considering the amounts of resources being plied into homeland security these days, it really is a wonder why disaster preparedness wasn't better than it was...